Hahhaha. Yeah, I don't think they actually count as metal, but they like it, and their music shows influences of it. They're like, tiny fluffy metal-and-Morrissey-(and-Brit-Pop)-loving marshmallow peeps (as someone said the other day). Well, just the marshmallow part. I don't know why marshmallow exactly, but the image of Gerard as a vampire peep is... yeah.